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[Atrix 4G General] MrTrunks:
My sister will give me her upgrade if I give her my Captivate. I use Cog 4 currently and I am happy with the device except gps.

If anyone jumped from Captivate to Atrix, what are your thoughts.

I'm also debating on just waiting for GS2 for AT&T.
[Atrix 4G General] waltah!:
I also have a Captivate running Cognition and I prefer the Atrix in every way.
[Atrix 4G General] franciscojavierleon:
try the official froyo update, from what i have read the gps works.

if it doesn't and it's important to you then get the atrix.

otherwise keep your cappy and wait for the galaxy S 2 or something else
[Atrix 4G General] AJerman:
I'm in the same boat, and from what I've been reading in these forums, people don't seem all that incredibly happy with the Atrix. I'm planning on waiting for the Galaxy S 2 myself. I don't know if I can deal with a non-SAMOLED screen now that I've had one!
[Atrix 4G General] iamthekeng:
I have the Atrix and the Captivate. I am happier with my Captivate than with my Atrix. Although I do like the power the Atrix has but I prefer the media support for the Captivate and I prefer Amoleds to the Atrix's display. Download speeds are disappointing too, considering it's supposed to be 4g. The Captivate gets faster speedtest results. Atrix's Hd video playback for mkv files is really choppy and embarrasing for a dual core phone. My recommendation would be to hold out for the S2. Quadrant scores aren't that impressive considering a single core Nexus S is on par with the Atrix. Quadrant Score for Atrix is in the 2500s where as the Nexus S was in the low 2000s untouched. I'm trying to give the Atrix a fair trial, but for now it seems as though it will be returned. I'll be waiting for the S2 or the Infuse.
[Atrix 4G General] bookofjoshua:
Im returning my atrix. Im running serendipity 5.11 on my cap and I noticed that motoblur is far slower than my cap, I use launcher pro also. I don't care about the screen (its a phone and its plenty crisp an image, I have a laptop and a desktop for quality.)

I didn't test the gps. I thought the camera over all wasn't as good as the cap, but thays probably a software issue not hardware. Though its disappointing that companies (samsung included) release these phone and advertise and price them as the next best thing while including hardware, I.e. camera sensor, That has been around for a while already and is subpar to some phone that are a year old already.

It obvioulsy performs tasks quicker than the captivate because of the dual core, but I don't see the benefits yet, I can wait.

I will wait until there are hacks if I really want it but for now the price att wants does not support the benefits. The real reason to get one is the dock and they've made that so expensive and trying to call it tethering using the dock when its all phone is dumb. I was told buy my friends at att tell me I can't keep my unlimited and add tethering either.(edit, clarify, I can't add tethering if I want to keep my unlimited plan, its one or the other)

Over all, im not impressed. But im sure it will get better with updates. Im gonna stick it out for a while with the cap and see what happens. I may give the new htc one a go first, its not faster than the cap, but its got a bigger screen and camera sensor so....
[Atrix 4G General] Rred:
See the GPS thread. THE ATRIX GPS WORKS!

Cappy doesn't. Atrix does.

Yeah, it really is that simple. Cappy is a little slimmer and lighter and has a nice bright screen--but who cares if the GPS will never work? And after two or three bogus fixes were issued and announced...who wants to wait and see?

And for the first time in all these years...a phone I've bought HAS A MESSAGE LIGHT! I can't tell you how nice a litle perq that is. Cappy doesn't have it.

Now, if they'd only put in a hole for a tether cord, because I'm often in places where a phone really doesn't want to get dropped.

Cappy gone. Hello Moto.
[Atrix 4G General] uberamd:
I have had 3 Captivates since they were released, and now I have an Atrix and Nexus One. Guess what, the Atrix is the best of all those. The Captivate is simply a garbage device, no way around it. No LED flash, no front facing camera, no LED notification, garbage GPS, slower, comes with trash TouchWiz, etc.
[Atrix 4G General] sabesh:
While I loved my Captivate, I must agree with you. Even with the best custom ROM for GPS (Paragon 6), GPS is hit or miss. Side by side, my wife's iPhone 4 and my Samsung Focus get a GPS lock much faster than the Captivate in difficult situations (indoors, cloudy day etc). I hope that the Atrix is better at this.

Another issue with the Captivate was battery life, which I hope the Atrix will be better at. Cheers.
[Atrix 4G General] lost2030:
The gps with Cog 4 is so much better than it has ever been since the Captivate came out. It locks on pretty quick and it's pretty accurate on location as well. My gps never worked until now.
[Atrix 4G General] Squeak22:
People say that every time, but yet it's still the same. It's a hardware issues plain and simple.
[Atrix 4G General] uberamd:
Yep. Regardless of ROM, my GPS on every Captivate I have owned has been entirely broken. 10+ minutes in an open parking lot, no signal lock. Atrix locks in my car in 5 seconds.
[Atrix 4G General] razorbladex401:
I made the same change from the Captivate to Atrix. Overall I've had a good experience with the Atrix. My biggest complaint at this point is Moto Blur. It's just crap. IF you decide to get the Atrix just be prepared for the different screen. The Amoled screen is better than the screen on the Atrix. I do miss that a little bit. But then I dock it on the Lapdock and forget all about it :)
[Atrix 4G General] hd779:
I got an atrix on day one on day two i boxed it back up am taking it back monday. After samoled i cold not take that screen. It was simply horrible to me. I am going to wait to see what samsung, htc, and apple bring out this summer.
[Atrix 4G General] FLAC Vest:
Hmm; have you compared the two side by side? The Atrix is a lot clearer and has a higher resolution.

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[Atrix 4G General] FLAC Vest:
I have switched as well and I love the phone. Very fast, great life, and better durability.

I'm going to be ordering a case in a few hours and getting the laptop dock in a few days.

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[Atrix 4G General] panflute:
Atrix is wonderful

Atrix is a wonderful experience, especially compared to the Captivate which was horrible, especially after loading in all of my apps the Captivate just froze with everything....the Atrix flies! Get Launcher Pro and forget Motoblur, it sucks.
[Atrix 4G General] jayjr1105:
I thought about it. I work for the Shack an get a pretty good discount on the atrix but I am simply in love with my captivate. Love the amoled. Love the huge selection of custom roms. The phone is extremely snappy running paragon. I am just 100% satisfied with the captivate.
[Atrix 4G General] Mr.Kakarot:
hijack :eek:

What about someone coming from a uk dhd, nexus s.... then a telus dhd.... my current desire hd, having hspa.... is great IMO, battery life could be better, but I have an extra battery...

Oh well, it will be here in 10 days, I guess that will decide all... but it is going to have to be great.... to make me ditch my dhd running cm7!
[Atrix 4G General] Caseyp789:
I'm torn in this decision too. I currently have a Nexus One and a Captivate. I was really thinking of selling the Captivate and getting either the Inspire or the Atrix. I messed around with both for about an hour and can honestly say I was a little let down by the Atrix. I really want to like this phone but I personally think the screen compared to the Captivate is just plain dull. Yeah, it has a higher res screen and I can appreciate that. BUT, the colors on the SAMOLED have spoiled me. I don't know what to do. The performance with a live wallpaper on my friend's Atrix was, frankly, pretty dang lousy for a phone that everyone has been raving about in terms of its speed. With a regular wallpaper the phone is certainly faster but it still didn't just blow me away. Also, the plastic build materials left a sour taste. Again, I really want to like this phone. I guess I'll check it out again and maybe have a change of heart. Anyone else think the way I do as far as the screen?
[Atrix 4G General] Blitanicle99:
I will tell you I have an iPhone 4 and I hate the ****ING thing.

I literally almost put my Glock 22 to it the other night and pulled the trigger.

Froze for 2.5 hours, locked up, wouldn't reset. Freezes taking pictures. Claims to get signal, but nothing works. Wont send and receive pictures.

Yeah. I'm getting the Atrix, but Android world has got to be better than this Bul**** I'm dealing with.
[Atrix 4G General] Squeak22:
If you like the AMOLED, you like the AMOLED, but don't believe for a second that anything that HTC has out has a better screen than the Atrix. HTC screens are the worst, IMO.

I for one, love the atrix screen.
[Atrix 4G General] lost2030:
I agree with you on that. People would always say a certain rom would fix their gps so I would get the rom and the gps would still be a POS! Since I got Cog4 the gps actually works! Yeah, it doesn't lock on as quick as the Atrix or Inspire, but it really does work. Right now I just opened google maps and it got my location spot on in under 10 seconds (I'm indoors).
[Atrix 4G General] mchimney:
While I still love my cappy, I think I love my atrix more now. The screen on the atrix seems much better outdoors, the gps is amazing and its just generally fast. You can also count it has led flash, but I don't take pics much(but I wish the atrix camera wasn't so washed out)
[Atrix 4G General] zephxiii:
sounds like a bad unit, get it exchanged. The only have the problem i've had with my 4 is the crappy home button.
[Atrix 4G General] laxwillsch:
Thought the same thing until I actually went in to ATT and compared the inspire to the atrix. IHO the inspire screen seems more crisp and the colors seem much more vivid. I know this seems crazy seeing how the resolution is better on the atrix but I don't know. I think HTC stepped it up or something because even coming from a captivate I like the screen on the inspire best. Also the development is crazy we already have custom roms, kernels, and cm7!!! And my quadrant is 2350.
[Atrix 4G General] amtrakcn:
I suggest wait for the launch of GS2, then compare:D
[Atrix 4G General] davwman:
I personally left the inspire after paying full retail and went back to the captivate on paragon rom. Although the atrix and captivate are really awesome android variants, i personally dont feel that they warrant an upgrade YET especially that the year is still young and att has more devices lined up for android as well as cm7 knocking on the captivates door very soon. Gps is golden for me on paragon and never had an issue with it. Its all about what you want and if money is not an issue, then more power to you.
[Atrix 4G General] davwman:
I thought the inspire screen blew away the sammy amoled. Just my opinion.
[Atrix 4G General] Fresh & Minty:
I too, was going to wait for the Galaxy S II, but after using my Atrix I have felt a little less willing too. First off, samsung's updates are pretty unpredictable and updates for me are a big deal since I usually don't root and install custom roms on my phones. Another thing, was availability. I don't think I can wait till who knows when (summer maybe?) to see it on AT&T if it even does arrive on AT&T. So, those were the main things that made my purchase of the atrix. Those and no other phone besides the that isn't an iPhone has launched with so many cases available from big manufacturers before (I ♥ cases! :D). Normally it takes months to see an otterbox if one is even made available and Speck is very picky about it's phones (you can ee if you visit their list of cases available for smartphones).
[Atrix 4G General] Rred:
"almost put my Glock 22 to it "

Six rounds spells "HATE" but w/Glock I guess you'd have to put all...17? in it. Noisy waste of ammunition when you could just throw it out a window, or stomp it, if you need to purge.<G>

Call me a Spartan, but I was upset that there was no choice of "No wallpaper" on the phone. I'd rather a plain black background, using zero power. If i wanted a LavaLite or a YuleLog I wouldn't have bought a phone.

And why aren't those two available as wallpapers anyway?<G>
[Atrix 4G General] jayjr1105:
Saying any HTC screen is better than SAMOLED is simply absurd unless you are actually colorblind. Just watch the avatar movie on someone's vibrant and then give an opinion. The atrix I could see jumping to from the captivate sacrificing vibrance for raw power, but the inspire shouldn't appeal to a captivate user whatsoever. The Inspire is so behind the curve other than the hspa+ (is it even LTE ready?) my captivate is getting 2400kb down and 1000kb up anyway so I am very satisfied with network speed. Also Hummingbird > Snapdragon.
[Atrix 4G General] lesterp:
Went from 3GS to Captivate to Atrix. All great phones (Cappy is a good phone on 2.2.1 based roms). The crown goes to the Atrix hands down. Fast and smooth once you start using a 3rd party launcher and root so that you can freeze bloatware with titanium. The screen is amazing, hard to believe how picky we have become that some people find this display ****ty.
[Atrix 4G General] Exador:
I had a Craptivate for two weeks and I agree with you 100%. Biggest pile of **** phone I ever had. GPS never worked the file system is laggy even with lagfixes Samsung support is the worst in the industry, but black levels were really black:rolleyes: Try playing a Flash video on your Craptivate and then play it on the Atrix or any other phone and you'll see the performance avantage of the Atrix.
[Atrix 4G General] FLAC Vest:
For the black wallpaper@er, just get a picture with black on it, go to set it as your wall0per, then just zoom down to a small black box and the phone will scale it to the whole screen.

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[Atrix 4G General] laxwillsch:
I really think you must just read too many tech journals or something that are biased towards samoled. Don't get me wrong its good I guess, of you like the ****ty whites and the blue tint everywhere. I have a cappy and the inspire and o gotta say the inspires screen blows the captivate out the water. Also to say the inspire is old tech is just ignorant. I am getting 3000 quadrant and 50 linpack. It's not all in the specs, what nyc has over every other manufacturer is sense. It runs as smooth as ios. I was a die hard cappy guy until I saw what a phone could really do with the inspire. Don't knock tech because you read a couple articles actually use the inspire and then tell me how u feel.
[Atrix 4G General] laxwillsch:
Previous post was in response to this post

And actually 2nd gen snapdragon blows hummingbird away
[Atrix 4G General] tekonus:
I had so many problems with the Captivate (mostly every one of them I had would just start turning themselves off eventually... they replaced it 3 times to no avail) that I eventually had them downgrade me to an Aria just to have an Android phone that worked. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not trashing the Captivate just to trash it, I just had a horrible experience with the phone. A good friend of mine has his running great, my uncle loves his as well. I just couldn't get one that worked worth a damn. This obviously skews my opinion though, doesn't it? :p As far as the screen on the Captivate goes, yes colors are very vibrant... but technically they are just overdone. They aren't accurate at all. It just looks like someone turned up the contrast and brightness to max compared to a phone with accurate color detail.
[Atrix 4G General] laxwillsch:
Totally agree
[Atrix 4G General] eatkabab:
I too had the Captivate. I used the broken GPS as a bargaining chip to get the Atrix for free.

I really loved the Cap with cognition. The codec support is outstanding and the screen is just eye popping. That being said, the Atrix is better at its job.

The cap has bull**** batt life, no frikin flash, is crap quality, and broke GPS, and was stupidly difficult to hit the soft buttons if you had a case on it.

The atrix has excellent batt, TWO flashes, high quality (but slips outta your hand), and EXTREMELY fast GPS. Unfortunately it lacks the ability to play pretty much ANY video file though (MP4 and MKV particularly). Hope that gets fixed... The dock **** is all a gimmick...

The atrix screen is high resolution, but has terrible color bit depth and looks b/w compared to the captivate. The atrix also comes with a TON of bull**** and stupid Blur. easy to get rid of, but really pisses you off till you do. The final nail in the cap is samsungs complete and utter negligence of their customers with their retarded lack of support. The frikin nexus S is the same goddamn phone. That means they're not putting 2.3 on the galaxy S's because they want to keep the nexus S "special" (maybe by googles demand).

THE ATRIX IS SO G-DdAMN FAST ITS INSAINE! I doubt I could ever go back to any phone before it.

That being said, I didn't pay for my phone and got it by luck. If I was paying, I'd wait for a high res AMOLED screen, dual core and a 2000+mah batt. (and of course frikin workin GPS)
[Atrix 4G General] FLAC Vest:
Wow. It seems that everyone here is.seriously pisses at the Captivate. Yes, there are some things that it should do better and yes, there are things that we all would love to.change.

However remember that we are comparing a 2.1 phone with a new generation of smartphone; it's like comparing the Captivate to the Hero.

We all know the phone is betted, no reason to vandalize the name.

Quite frankly im sure most of us here were in love with the Captivate at some point.

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[Atrix 4G General] rabbivj:
Glock? pssh...tupperware...get a Sig! Better yet a 1911! :-P :D
[Atrix 4G General] mtbike2350:
I would do it... I had just gotten the captivate when I decided to wait it out for this phone. I put up a small review;

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=11724077#post11724077

My Phones:

Motorola MicroTAC Elite

Nokia 7160

Nokia 6340i

Nokia 6230

Nokia 6682

HTC Tilt

HTC Fuse

HTC Tilt2 (custom ROM)

Samsung Captivate (custom ROM,rooted)

Motorola Atrix (rooted)
[Atrix 4G General] AJerman:
I still love my Captivate. I'm starting to think I'm one of the only ones! I don't think I'm jumping for the Atrix just yet. I'm more interested in the SGS 2.
[Atrix 4G General] hd779:
Your not alone, I just returned my Atrix today and am using the Captivate again (I actually had the phone for a week and boxed it up the second day). As I stated before I could not take the Atrix's screen. I compared them side by side in many different applications and websites and there was not comparison. Some people like the high resolution, but for me the lower resolution was better (i like that my widgets fill the screen on the Cappy). My phone has not turned off and though the GPS is not as great as I would like (it works just takes awhile to lock at times), its everything I need at this point. I will simply wait to see what others bring out this summer and make my choice then.
[Atrix 4G General] ekerbuddyeker:
Im a few days into the Atrix from a modded Cappy that worked perfectly and an Inspire. I thi k the Atrix is the best of the three . I do like the cappy screen and its handling of video and sound, and I think sense is the best UI on android (I thought it was best on my 6.5 hd2!). But this is frankly the snappiest and most satisfying device I have had since my Palm Treo 680 which was a fabulous device.

Actually I wish I could have 4 dedicated keys that switch the devi e on and go straight to the app (like my treo!).
[Atrix 4G General] alkatz:
I'm using Phoenix 5.2 and the gps works perfect
[Atrix 4G General] di11igaf:
no it doesnt.

run nenamark on your phone and tell me what you get..captivate will be a 50 plus.

the inspire was so laggy compared to my captivate it was pathetic. not to mention, people talk about samsung touch wiz being horrible, sense adds probably 10 times more **** to the phone than touchwiz. at least with touch wiz you can delete the launcher and a few apks, and theres not much touchwiz left. theres more MB's of HTC apks in the inspire than the total size of my captivate rom/kernel combined. sorry but people spoke highly of the desire hd so i decided to try the inspire, and yes there is certain things that the inspire will do a little quicker, but overall ui speed/smoothness it does not even come close to the captivate. period.

the atrix is almost in the same boat as the inspire, its quick at SOME things, but again, overall ui speed and smoothness it doesnt come close to the captivate. just looking at a launcher with a 3d app drawer on either phone against the captivate and youll see. its not as bad on the atrix, but the inspire looks like its moving at 20 FPS while the captivate looks like its moving at 60 FPS.
[Atrix 4G General] FLAC Vest:
Eh...:-) I think youre a little biased on that one. I actually compared my Captivate with the Atrix and the Atrix loaded everything faster overall.

There are some great things that the Captivate does, and honestly im taking the Atrix back after my Nexus 1 comes in tomorrow and I can do comparisons between all three.

Im excited.
[Atrix 4G General] waltah!:
There is no perfect phone, just reasonable expectations.
[Atrix 4G General] Gr8Danes:
Having come from the same device, I would easily recommend the jump to the Atrix. I liked my Captivate, but the additional speed and features were a no brainer IMO.

I was considering waiting to see what the next Samsung would hold for us, but in the end, I was sick of waiting for the Official Froyo to be released to us (yes, I ran the unofficial froyo when it was leaked and many custom roms). If it took 7 months past when we were told it should be available, I don't want to be in the same boat when the next OS update is available to the device makers/carriers. If Samsung shows a more reliable timeline for updates, maybe I will reconsider next time I upgrade. Time will tell.
[Atrix 4G General] fabrijack:
this might be the most sensable thing I have ever read on xda...:cool:
[Atrix 4G General] di11igaf:
Biased? I have both phones right now. Im not spewing bs im stating my observations. Put a live wallpaper on the atrix then watch the app drawer animation when you go from the drawer, to the homescreen. The atrix will lag pretty bad, while the captivate is still buttery smooth. I want to like the atrix and if it was a better phone, I would say it. It is better in some areas, but ui speed and smoothness its not. Run nenamark, it wont touch the captivates scores. Even with the captivate at 1ghz, it still does some things faster than the atrix as well. Do a browser testvon wifi-my captivate wins every time. I like the feel of the phone, but what you got now is about as good as its gonna get with that bootloader, until moto updates the phone.

And like what was pointed out in another thread, if your coming from an iphone 4 or an older android phone with a first gen snapdragon or something, the atrix is ginned feel like the best thing since sliced bread, but there is a reason why I have a captivate and an atrix and.the atrix is collecting dust right now.
[Atrix 4G General] jayjr1105:
Look, a dual core is obviously going to be more desirable than a single. All I am saying is that my captivate has been a beast for me (gps works, hsupa speeds are nuts, snappy with paragon rc6). Sure I would like to have camera flash and FFC but they are not dealbreakers imo. I am still within my 30 days from buying my captivate and it would cost me roughly $120 more to swap out for the atrix but I just feel very little pressure to do so being how good my cappy has been. I live in eastern PA and this is how good my hsupa speeds have been...
[Atrix 4G General] sabesh:
How does the Atrix fare once you Freeze the Motoblur/ATT via Titanium Backup? Thx.